http://www.ronin-tech.com/ Ronin Technologies en-us Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:47:51 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Ronin Technologies News http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.ronin-tech.com/images/Ronin-Logo.jpg http://www.ronin-tech.com/ http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=16.html This might be of interest to those of you that like to read eBooks on your iPhone or iPod touch and use the great reader app, Stanza. There are several places to download books directly onto your device from within Stanza, just take a peek under the Online Catalog section. In case of disaster I wanted to backup the Stanza books into Calibre, the fully featured, multi-platform, open source eBook organizer I've been using. Since there's no way to do this from Stanza I whipped up a little Perl script to do it for me. All you need is an SSH server running on your device and 3 configuration items edited at the top of the script. When executed, it finds the Stanza library on your device, downloads all your books and renames them from the obfuscated name on the device to one that can be easily imported into Calibre. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:47:51 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=15.html I recently was having issues with a project that was continually getting stuff checked in on HEAD that was broken. You'd spend a lot of time checking everything out and then build it only to find out it was broken . I decided to setup a nightly build server that would checkout the latest of everything at midnight and attempt to build it. As usual I did a quick Google search on "nightly build tool" and stumbled across the open source project Hudson. Within a short amount of time I had installed this tool on our Linux development server and had configured it to do nightly builds, present the results on a nice web interface, hook into the version control system and do things like email anyone that had checked something in when the build broke. Great tool and highly recommended! Read here for more info. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:24:17 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=14.html This weekend I installed Git on our Linux server to manage software version control. In the past we've used CVS and Subversion but they are getting a little dated and I'd like to see how Git works. Installation was a snap using gitosis with ssh keys. For external viewing I also hooked up viewgit, which gives a nice WebUI interface to the Git repositories. Very impressed so far. You can see it in action here. Only thing I'd like to add is links to each line number. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:53:32 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=13.html I've just finished setting up a 1-wire temperature sensor network in our house. You can see the resulting temperature charts here. It utilizes a couple of great open source packages: OWFS 1-Wire File System and RRDTool. Read all about the details of how I put it all together here. Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:19:08 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=12.html I've just uploaded a new version of dfmaps. Version 0.9.9 adds the following functionality: - Filtering of map markers. - Map search capability. - The foreground and background of infowindows can now be set from the admin section. This will help with broken themes. - Admins can now give users the ability to download a maps complete KML file. See it all in action here and download it here. Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:15:57 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=11.html This release update a few tools due to security issues, fix bugs and update some drivers. You are encouraged to update from previous releases as soon as you can. IPCop 1.4.13 released Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:29:22 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=10.html Embedded Linux gets another boost from Denx' latest Embedded Linux Development Kit(ELDK): DENX Software Engineering announce the immediate availability of version 4.1 of the free Embedded Linux Development Kit (ELDK Release 4.1). New in ELDK Release 4.1: Linux kernel version 2.6.19.2 U-Boot version 1.2 Support for Xenomai 2.3 Support for uClibc for ARM and PowerPC Support for recent Linux distributions like Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10 or Gentoo 2006.1 Support for all AMCC eval boards, including "Sequoia" board (PPC440EPx) Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:25:05 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=9.html The day has come. Old faithful Google Maps API v1 is now officially offline. They definitely gave everyone fair warning to upgrade so hopefully nobody gets impacted by this. If you were using the old MemGooMap module that was built around API v1, be sure to upgrade to my new DF Maps module. It uses API v2 and has all the functionality of the old module plus much more. Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:22:58 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=8.html A new version of this great firewall distribution has just been released. More Dynamic DNS providers have been added amongst other things. Check it out here. Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:47:55 GMT http://www.ronin-tech.com/News/article/sid=7.html I'm pleased to announce that DFMaps is now available for public beta. Many new features/fixes have been added. To take part in the beta program, simply join the site and post in the forum that you would like to join the Beta Testers group. Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:49:24 GMT